SmokinwithWilly

Lamb, Pickens and Ferguson is a match up nightmare.

Pretty sure he was getting sacked and pressured a ridiculous amount too.

I didnt say they haven't shown any. But for instance, today, DC, instead of riding the hot hand with Rico when Rico is obviously having the better game, insists on splitting carries with Chuba. That's a situational awareness issue that looked like it was getting better the last 2 weeks as DC was doing what working and sticking with it. This week, he reverted back to being stubborn and trying to force the issue. His clock management and time out usage are baffling at times. As for Bryce, he isn't consistent at all. His mechanics are still crap under pressure. The fumbling issue is still huge. Bryce looks more often like a rookie than not. I haven't seen a 2 or 3 game span that makes me say to myself, damn, now that's a number 1 pick. To me, those things are not the signs of growth that I would expect to see in year 2 and 3 respectively. Our defense is improving as is Evero. Our ST has improved. There is growth there. I acknowledge that. There's been growth. But the 2 key places, HC and QB, I don't think there's been a whole lot.

I get what he's saying. Winning is fine, but if you're not improving, you're going to stay where you are, which for us is 4-7 wins, year after year. Losing, but showing improvement week to week, will eventually result in better play on a more consistent basis and then the wins will come with more frequency. Net result is consistent winning teams and playoffs. Short term vs long term.

What about this guy?

Happy about winning. Not happy about making the same bone headed mistakes over and over. It's ok to be both.

This is why, even if you thought Bryce was so bad he made Fields look like Tom Brady, you have to have to look for a real backup during the offseason. We're 4-3 and its possible we could make a run for a wild card. Now Bryce is hurt and we have the husk of Andy Dalton to carry this team? C'mon Dan.

Sometimes a guy is just feeling it, which Rico definitely has the past 2 weeks. It's not personal. It's about winning. Do what's best for the team to win. If that means Rico averaging near 5 yards a carry gets the bulk over Chuba's 2 YPC, so be it, because the long game is playoff hunt. Do what's necessary to win and make it easier on yourself doing it.

Calling out bad decisions isn't crying. Justin Fields is the worst QB in the NFL, backed up by Taylor who is about 1/2 a step better and we barely escaped with a win, mainly because DC refused to just run Rico, who was clearly the better back today. We could have put our foot on their throats and made a statement but we didn't. This piss poor play calling and clock management is going to get our asses pounded into the ground if he doesnt wake up now that we're going into the meat of our schedule.

Need to trade for Jameis and let Andy go at some point. He's frigging terrible.

No we don't. We want competence. How in the hell do you split carries for a guy that's put up 500 yards of offense in 2 weeks? And when it's not working, keep doing it! Competence. That's it. Competence.

DC overthinking this. Rico smash. The end.

No. If they did the team would be better.

Pretty much thank Mahomes for that.

The Raiders have relocated for the ... ummmm.... how many times now?

I get that about the contract. I was just trying to think of the only places with coaches and situations that might be able to do anything with him as far as designing an offense for him. I don't see it being likely at all either.

Possibly Steichen or Johnson in Chicago. It wouldn't be much if they're ready to move on from AR or to backup Williams with a chance to start at some point, but if anyone could design something around Bryce, Steichen or Johnson would be the ones to do it. Maybe Reid in KC, but that would be as a backup only and I dont see BY going for that at all.

You have to invest in the middle via the draft. Its cheap and easy and rounds 2 and 3 are gold for interior linemen. I've been banging this drum since Kalil's neck injury. Draft your anchor in the middle and keep him. The chemistry between center and QB is the most important on the field. Paradis, Bozeman, Corbitt. Good lawd.

Then if he needs time to grow up and he is going to sign an extension in needs to be a 3 year, 20m AAV. He doesn't deserve to get paid like a top 10 QB right now because he's not. Daniel Jones is getting 14m and is playing top notch football. He may have had some better games, but his mechanics and footwork are still terrible when he feels any pressure, real or not. When he feels good, he steps into his throws like he should. When he doesn't, it's that body squared up or jumping arm toss or tip toe lob. His fumbling is a huge problem. He cant run QB sneaks. He cant really play from under center because his drop backs are terrible and he needs to be far back to get enough gapping to see the field. That's not top 10 QB contract worthy. And let's not pretend that Bryce is some victim in all of this. Remember him packing on 20 lbs before the combine for the weigh in and walking around in a hoodie the entire time or practicing that S2 test that no one has mentioned before or since so he'd have better results, or riding that hype train like the wheels weren't ever going to fall off. Stroud got roasted and torn apart because of a "leaked" S2 result. He was being portrayed as an idiot while Bryce was being portrayed as a savant. All Stroud ever said was watch me play football. He proved his point. Bryce did everything he could to make himself the number 1 overall pick and when that happens, guess where you're going? To a bad team, likely with a new coach and it's probably going to be full of dysfunction especially if the owner is Dave Tepper. But the real dysfunction came because Bryce wasn't Reich's choice for QB. He wanted Stroud because Stroud fit the type of offense he ran better than Bryce ever could. That's why he lost interest as soon as he was drafted. He was forced to play Bryce when it was obvious he wasn't ready to show off Tepper's shiny new draft pick. No HC is going to come to a team when he gets no choice over who he has as a QB to build around and he has to reinvent the wheel when the easiest thing to do was just buy the wheel that fit to begin with. Tepper lied to Reich all the way up until draft day, then he made that pick. Then Reich checked out, and i don't blame him one bit. And I'll be clear, I didn't want Reich. I wanted Steichen because of what he's doing in Indy or Ryans because I thought he would make one hell of a leader and HC. Reich was a HC with no control over his own team. I put the majority of what's gone wrong involving Bryce on Tepper. The trade gave up too much in picks and DJ to build around him, we had a horrid GM who couldn't draft or build a roster, a QB forced to play before he's ready, an owner that thinks he knows more than football people. There's a lot of moving pieces in all of this, but we cant pay Bryce 50m AAV at the end of this season while he figures it out, and the 5th year doesnt make sense either if we're a run heavy offense with Bryce as game manager. You dont need a 30m, 5th year option QB for that. If he's not there developmentally, he's not there. Unfortunately, there isnt time to just calm down. He plays like a game manager this year and we have to move on. You dont give game managers huge contracts behind the highest paid oline in football, especially when you need to sign your LT. Any journeyman can give us Bryce level results for 15m less per year. Just the way it is. If there was more time, maybe. Unfortunately there isn't. Just the way it is.

How in the world anyone ever thought that replacing Ryan Kalil with Matt Paradis, Brad Bozeman and Corbett would work out well I can't even comprehend. Even Willie ain't been that high.

Losing Pat Jones could end up being an issue for us. He was good at setting the edge against the run and we're going to have to contain Fields in that aspect if nothing else. Can't let him have a career day rushing the ball by letting him escape the backfield.

I hear he's excellent at breaking down a play over a Caesar salad.

Bryce Young ... Brady. Bryce Young... Brady. Fug. Pass me some of that poo. One hit and my feet will never touch the ground again.

Also, one of the most frequent QBs mentioned to be brought in via trade has been Winston. Ive been one of the anti-Bryce since the beginning and its had to do with 3 things, physical attributes, that S2 hype BS and his god awful footwork. The footwork thing is painful. Like Greg Little at the combine painful.

Social security checks getting passed out at halftime.